Battleship (2012)

Battleship Synopsis

In Summer 2012, the battle for Earth begins at sea.

Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) directs and produces Battleship, an epic-scale action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force.

I know. You hear there's going to be a Tetris movie, and instinctively roll your eyes while bellowing, "Hollywood has officially run out of ideas." I hear you. But it gets worse, because Hollywood thinks this is the thing that will turn around low theater attendance. Things are the new stars, don't you know.

Battleship is doing surprisingly well overseas, though, having made $215 million internationally, so it might not wind up being as big as money-loser as John Carter. But still, there's an air of mystery around this historically bad flop. What went so wrong here?

For a third weekend in a row The Avengers held an easy first place lead, this week adding an additional $55 million to its $457 million total US sales. Now the number six all-time money maker in the US, it's set to possibly climb all the way to third place on that list, behind only Titanic and The Dark Knight.

With Friday numbers in, it's clear that The Avengers is really the only thing anybody wants to see right now. According to estimates at Deadline it made $15 million Friday, putting it on pace for $54 million for the weekend-- a hearty $4 million more than predicted. Battleship, meanwhile, made $9 million, now on pace for a $25 million weekend

Something about Battleship still feels, overly familiar, as if we’ve seen a handful of these scenes before. The whole movie feels like Roland Emmerich’s sperm and Michael Bay’s sperm fertilized an egg Tony Scott cryogenically froze back in 1986, producing a “baby” with qualities of all of its “birth” fathers.

In Battleship he has the chance to redeem himself, and some people-- well, at least Katey-- think he shows that spark of star potential after all. Kristy, on the other hand, remembers him fondly as Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights, and didn't see anything to like at all about what he does in Battleship

This week on Operation Kino, we're firing a missile at B-6 and taking out your destroyer, as we review the biggest board game adaptation of all time, Battleship. From there we get into a discussion inspired by The Dictator, about modern satire and whether or not anybody is trying to make them anymore

Last weekend it was clear that Dark Shadows would be fed into the woodchipper that was The Avengers, completely lost in the continuing hype of the year's biggest movie. When The Avengers made $103 million last weekend and Dark Shadows made $29 million, it didn't even seem like a fair fight

Given that other trailers have shown Taylor Kitsch's character Alex Hopper in a relationship with Decker's Samantha, it's clear this clip comes early in the film, with Alex celebrating his birthday with his more strait-laced brother Stone (Alexander Skarsgard) and wasting a birthday wish on the almost inconceivably beautiful woman who just stepped up to the bar

Some movies are really meant to be seen on the big screen, and based on the trailers, the Peter Berg directed action film Battleship seems like a prime example of that. While the film isn’t set to hit theaters in the U.S. until next month, some will have the chance to see the movie on an even bigger screen before then.

The clip features insights from Berg and his cast, including Taylor Kitsch (John Carter), and singing sensation Rihanna. They claim that the stakes are “extremely high” once the alien invasion begins, that humanity is facing “an extinction-level” event.

Nonstop explosions sell action movies, especially expensive ones like this, and the poorly punctuated title card "From Hasbro The Company That Brought You Transformers" really tells you everything you need to know about the goals of Battleship. I may be the only person who goes into this movie hoping for something a little more, but dammit, that's what I want, and I wish I could see even a glimpse of that in this trailer

It seems Battleship may be the only survivor of Universal's ill-fated Hasbro deal. Based on the board game made famous by the commercial bon mot "You sunk my battleship," this action-packed drama revealed to be about far more than nautical warfare when its trailer dropped, revealing an intense extraterrestrial enemy. Now, preparing for the film's fast-approaching release in Italy, the latest character banners focus on big guns, hot guys, and unearthly alien missiles

Given the fact that Rihanna is brandishing a different weapon in almost every picture, it’s safe to guess that she’ll be heavily involved in Berg’s action once the alien technology begins to hit he fan. And while Battleship claims to be based on the classic Hasbro board game, this summer blockbuster absolutely has more in common with Michael Bay’s robot franchise than it does with the red and white pegs of the old-school game.

It's been hard not to notice in recent weeks that Universal has been quickly shedding every single movie it's developing that is based on a toy or board game. It's been not even four years since the studio struck a deal with toy manufacturer Hasbro to make a whole slate of movies based on their properties

If you were upset there's no new Transformers movie coming this summer, Universal is trying to reassure you by making their own blockbuster Battleship look as much like a Transformers movie as humanly possible

Directed by Peter Berg and based on the famous board game, Battship stars Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna, Josh Pence, Peter MacNicol and Jesse Plemons. The film sees our planet get invaded by an alien species that seeks to destroy us and it's up to a fleet of battleships to stop the invasion. The movie hits theaters on May 18th and you'll be able to watch the full Super Bowl spot here on Cinema Blend when it arrives on Sunday.

How do you say "I sunk your battleship" in Japanese? It probably won't matter, since from the looks of it Peter Berg's movie based on the classic board game won't be using the tagline famous from all the commercials we remember seeing as a kid

Everything from that opening text-- "From Hasbro, the company that brought you Transformers"-- to the metallic booming effects to the little ball alien that throws out a tentacle and rips through a plane feels so, so much like a Transformers movie. Then there's Brooklyn Decker as your random hottie

My favorite part of this video? When the announcer says that Rihanna is unrecognizable because she has some fake tattoos on her arm. Oh, and when the guys asks the main action stars in the movie if they get beat up. Oh, and how they didn't get Liam Neeson, probably because he has too much self respect to be on such a moronic program.

A couple weeks ago, we got our very first look at Peter Berg’s Battleship, >a trailer which boasted aliens, a “game board” shot, and weaponry that, you guessed it, looked like pegs from the classic HASBRO board game. After all this, if you didn’t facepalm yourself into a concussion you’re a far more tolerant man than I.

Starring Taylor Kitsch as a Navy man who just wants to marry Brooklyn Decker but can't get the approval of fellow Navy man Liam Neeson-- jeez, that guy is good at playing hard-ass dads-- the action really kicks off when the Naval fleet sees a mysterious force out in the water and it turns out to be… aliens

A lot of them are just early mockups of titles against a simple background, or in the case of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter just the title from the original book, but the Three Stooges banner shows off the first look at Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and and Will Sasso

Luttrell was one of four SEAL team members captured by the Taliban on a mission to kill a terrorist leader; as Berg explained to Deadline, "The mission was similar to the assassination mission that got bin Laden, but things got complicated when they ran into three kids and an old man"

Taking time out of his surely busy (read: empty) schedule to further harp on the idea of a True Lies 2, Arnold angrily replied to a thread called "9 Hyped Film Projects That Are Never Gonna Happen" that likens him to

He was one of the better things about X-Men Origins: Wolverine and next year you’ll see him as the lead in John Carter of Mars. Now he’s been cast in Battleship and Taylor Kitsch seems well on his way to being the next Sam Worthington

In a shocking bit of movie news, Brian Goldner, CEO of Hasbro toy company, has announced to MTV that their film based on the tabletop classic Battleship won’t have big red and white pegs protruding from the screen

When Battleship, the film project based on the classic Hasbro/Milton Bradley game, was first announced in May it didn't seem like that bad an idea. It had a more than capable director attached (Peter Berg) and would be about naval warfare

Hasbro wasn't fooling around when they decided to turn as many of their toys as possible into movies. Stretch Armstrong, Candyland, G.I.. Joe and of course Transformers are all on their way to theaters, and now, well, Hasbro is sinking your box office Battleship